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Comics A.M. | Taipei festival expected to draw more than 330,000

Conventions | So you think Comic-Con International is too big? The Taipei International Comics and Animation Festival drew 330,000 attendees last year — its first year — and with Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama as a guest, this year’s show promises to be just as big. [Focus Taiwan]

Conventions | Crystal Gutierrez files a report on Albuquerque Comic Con, which took place over the weekend. [KRQE]

Creators | Former X-Men writer Chris Claremont discusses his 1980s-era story Marada the She-Wolf, drawn by John Bolton, which has just been collected by Titan; it started as a Red Sonja story and changed when Marvel lost that license. [Suicide Girls]

Exhibits | Calvin Reid talks to Cheryl Harper, curator of “Compulsive Stories: Narratives That Must Be Told,” an exhibit of autobiographical comics and other art by Carol Tyler, Lance Tooks and others. [Publishers Weekly]

Retailing | Dave Ulansky, owner of Amazing Fantasy Comic Shop in Crown Point, Indiana, talks about the business, what people like (The Walking Dead, The Avengers, Batman), and why he moved there from Calumet City. [NWI Times]